U+1CE05 "𜸅" Heavy White Square Containing Black Very Small Square Unicode Character

U+1CE05 "𜸅" Heavy White Square Containing Black Very Small Square is a symbol belonging to the Unicode Standard's Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, though it has a distinct visual design of a thick, white outer square framing a much smaller, solid black square at its center. This character is used primarily as a graphical or abstract geometric icon, often employed in digital contexts for decorative purposes, user interface elements, or as a placeholder in typography and design rather than representing a specific linguistic or semantic concept. Its heavy outline and contrasting inner square make it visually striking, though it remains a relatively rare and specialized character with no common everyday application.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1CE05
Version Added	16.0
Name	Heavy White Square Containing Black Very Small Square
Block	Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𜸅
HTML Hex Encoding	𜸅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9C 0xB8 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD833 0xDE05
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001CE05
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud833\ude05

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other